RE: Why Do Atheists Criticize People's Beliefs?
June 5, 2017 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2017 at 9:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 5, 2017 at 9:33 am)Valyza1 Wrote: Why is this such a silly notion? I already gave an example of two people taking the same basic belief and responding to it in entirely different kinds of ways. Do you want a real life example? How about Timothy McVeigh vs Desmond Doss?It's a silly notion because it's explicitly illogical and wallows in that. The notion that all the bad shit is due to it being done wrong™. Perhaps all the good shit is due to it being done wrong? Perhaps all the shit is due to it being done wrong? Perhaps all the shit is due to it being done right, good or bad.
You didn't give any examples of a shared basic belief and it's relationship to impetus. You gave two examples of people who fall under a broad header term for 33k different schismatic faiths, and surmised that one was doing "it" right, and one was doing "it" wrong for no reason other than your own preferred outcomes - as if there even were a singular "it" in the first place.
Maybe bloodgod is hungry, Val. People who do terrible things to please their bloodgod -are- appropriately lighting the fire of their religion. Sometimes, that means warming people up, in the sense that you have piled sticks around them and then set them on fire...literally.
Quote:People who think faith is a fire that burns everyone near it. Anyone would prefer freezing to that, so they prefer the cold. They don't understand and/or believe and/or just plain deny that any kind of worthwhile handling of this fire can be managed.This comment is too abstract for me to respond to, honestly. I can't tell whether or not it responds to the quoted comment to which it was applied.
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